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"The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence."
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"As for myself, I was never against Russia."
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"Tolerance is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
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"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
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"Let's not hate the existence of hatred."
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"Vin paused. "And you have all of these religions memorized?""As much as is possible," Sazed said. "Their prayers, their beliefs, their mythologies. Many are very similar -- break-offs or sects of one another.""Even still, how can you remember all of that?""I have...methods," Sazed said."But, what's the point?"Sazed frowned. "The answer should be obvious, I think. People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so--therefore--are their beliefs."
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"Don't despise people because of their defects or because of their lack of talents and gifts. Imagine if people did it for you, how many friends would you be left with?"
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"I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels."
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"The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence."
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"Without demolishing religious schools (madrassahs) and minarets and without abandoning the beliefs and ideas of the medieval age, restriction in thoughts and pains in conscience will not end. Without understanding that unbelief is a kind of religion, and that conservative religious belief a kind of disbelief, and without showing tolerance to opposite ideas, one cannot succeed. Those who look for the truth will accomplish the mission."
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"The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong."
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"Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not."
Faith
"It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have."
Fiction
"All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal."
People
"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."
Attention
"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."
Life
"When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."
Business
"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth."
Truth
"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."
Time
"Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers."
Losing
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
Art
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